Prehistoric Cultures

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Video materials used in class illustrate many topics covered in this course. Consider these presentations similar to lab sessions, that is, watch them carefully and critically rather than simply watch another movie or video. The exams will include these materials, and it will be assumed that you have paid critical attention to them.

On Order:

How Does the Brain Work -- NOVA (60 min., 2011, DVD)

Day

Date

No.

Title

VC 1290

• Yanomamö: A Multidisciplinary Study
  (45 min., 1970, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia F2520.1.Y3 Y36 2004 DVD)
  • Controversy: Darkness in El Dorado

Week 2 — The Development of Prehistoric Cultures
History of Thought

• The Search for Adam
  (51 min., 2005, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281.4 .S42 2006 DVD)

UM DULUTH Library Multimedia
QH431 .P377 2008 DVD

DVD 1932

• Patterns of Variation
  (28 min., 2008, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia QH431 .P377 2008 DVD)

• Journey of Man . . . (beginning)
  (120 min., 2003, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .J687 2003 DVD)

• Journey of Man . . . (continued)
  (120 min., 2003, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .J687 2003 DVD)

Good supplementary video:
The Human Family Tree
(96 min., 2009, DVD 1867)
National Geographic
Genographic Project

• Monkey, Ape and Man
  (49 min., 1971, VC 802)
  

• Among the Wild Chimpanzees
  (58 min., 1984, VC 806)

Thursday
6 Oct. 2011

• The Last Great Ape
  (56 min., 2007, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia QL737.P96 L37 2007 DVD)
  • Bonobo -- Wikipedia

• Search for the First Human – A Secrets of the Dead Special
  (60 min., 2002, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia  GN281 .S4 2007)

• Discovering Ardi . . . (beginning)
  (88 min., 2009, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN283.25 .D57 2009 DVD)
  Discovery Channel

• Discovering Ardi . . . (continued)
  (88 min., 2009, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN283.25 .D57 2009 DVD)
  Discovery Channel

• Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors, Part 1, "First Steps"
  NOVA
  (180 min., 2010, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN282 .B436 2010 DVD)
  • class viewing guide
  • PBS HomePage
    • watch on-line

UM DULUTH Library Multimedia
GN281 .O755 2005 DVD

VC 3641, Pt. 2

• "Origins of Homo Sapiens: East African Roots"
  part 2 of The Story of Hominid Evolution
  (47 min., 1997, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .O755 2005 DVD)

  Good supplementary video:
  Out of Asia: New Theories on Evolution -- Films for the Humanities
  (52 min., 1998, VC 4325)

  • view on-line at www.learner.org/
    (registration required, but is free)

Week 9 — "Homo erectus and Contemporaries"
Java (Pithecanthropus) / "Peking Man" (Homo erectus pekinensis) / "Turkana Boy"
"The First Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries"

• Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors, Part 2, "Birth of Humanity"
  NOVA
  (180 min., 2010, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN282 .B436 2010 DVD)
  • Class viewing guide
    
  • PBS HomePage
    • "Birth of Humanity" OnLine

Week 10 — Premodern Humans
Neandertals and Other Archaic Homo sapiens ("Heidelberg Man")

Midterm Exam 2

Gibraltar I: Reconstruction of a ca. four-year-old Neandertal
PBS
Neandertal
(aka Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neandertalensis)
Homo sapiens sapiens

• Neanderthals on Trial -- NOVA
  (60 min., 2002, VC 4333)

  Also available at the UMD library:

  The Fate of Neanderthal Man [sic.]

  • Episode 1: "The Mammoth Hunter" (52 min., 1999, VC 3647, Pts. 1 and 2)
  • Episode 2: "The Death of Neanderthal Man [sic.]" (52 min., 1999, VC 3647, Pts. 1 and 2)

  For fun, have a look at Neanderthal's World -- Films for the Humanities
  (97 min., 2001, VC 4592)
  
  [The facts and details in this presentation are good, but the dramatization gets a little carried away. Nonetheless, it's a fun video to watch.]

• Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors, Part 3, "Last Human Standing"
  NOVA
  (180 min., 2010, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN282 .B436 2010 DVD)
  • class viewing guide
    
  • PBS HomePage
    • watch on-line

"A male Homo floresiensis may have looked something like this"
(Image: National Geographic) -- BBC

• Alien from Earth
  (56 min., 2009, CC, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN855.I6 A55 2009 DVD)
  • The "Hobbit" WebPage (Homo floresiensis)

  Good supplementary video, for fun:
  "Hunt or be Hunted"
  from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel
  (49 min., 2003, DVD 94, cf. Chs. 5-7)

• Blades and Pressure Flaking
  (21 min., 1968, VC 2841)

• Alan Alda, "Hand Made Human"
  from Scientific American Frontiers, "Life's Really Big Questions"
  (Segment 2, 15 min., 2000, VC 4261)

• Homo Sapiens: A Look into a Distant Mirror
  (53 min., 1999, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN286 .H666 2004 DVD)

Week 13 — Hunting / Gathering / Foraging

"Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers"
Ethnographic Analogy and the Method of Controlled Comparison

UM DULUTH Library Multimedia
DT1058.K86 H86 2004 DVD

VC 2305

• The Hunters
  (72 min., 1958, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia DT1058.K86 H86 2004 DVD)

• Patterns of Adaptation
  (28 min., 2008, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia QP82 .P38 2008 DVD)

• "Wisdom of the Stones: Life in the Neolithic Age"
  part 1 of Secrets of the Stone Age Series
  (51 min., 2000, VC 3906, pt. 1)
  • Other parts of the series include:
    • "Frozen in Time: Life in the Upper Paleolithic Age"
      (51 min., part. 2, 2000, VC 3906)
      ~ including information on figurines
    • "The Human Story: Traces of Humankind's Oldest Relatives"
      (51 min., part. 3, 2000, VC 3906)
      ~ including information on Middle Paleolithic, Neandertal, Cro-Magnon

VC 1981

NOTE:
This is NOT the 1998 program by the same name (UM DULUTH Library Multimedia
GN778.22.I8 I23 1998 DVD)

• The Iceman
  (56 min., 1992, VC1981)
  
  • Good supplementary video:
    The Iceman
    Films for the Humanities
    (97 min., 1998, VC 4327, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia
    GN778.22.I8 I23 1998 DVD)
    
    
  • Another good supplementary video: 
    Ice mummies. Siberian Ice Maiden
    NOVA
    (57 min., 1998, VC 3963)

• *"The Collapse"
  from the Out of the Past series
  (60 min., 1993, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia CC165 .O97 1993b DVD Disc 4)
  • view on-line at www.learner.org/
    (registration required, but is free)

• Quest for Phoenicians
  (ca. 60 min., 2006, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia DS81 .Q478 2006 DVD)
  • Phoenicians WebPage

• *for fun:
  "Mastering the Beasts"
  from Before We Ruled the Earth series
  Discovery Channel
  (49 min., 2003, Chs. 5-7, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GN281 .B445 2003 DVD)
  
  How do you look at this program differently now than you might have at the beginning of the semester ?

* time permitting